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Holistic Approach for Assessing Buildings’ Environmental Impact and User Comfort from Early Design: A Method Combining Life Cycle Assessment, BIM, and Active House Protocol

Buildings 2023, 13(5), 1315; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13051315
by Nicole Di Santo 1, Leidy Guante Henriquez 1,2,*, Giovanni Dotelli 3,* and Marco Imperadori 1
Reviewer 1:
Emerson Galvani
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Buildings 2023, 13(5), 1315; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13051315
Submission received: 15 April 2023 / Revised: 6 May 2023 / Accepted: 15 May 2023 / Published: 18 May 2023
(This article belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The article aims to proposes an assessment method to support decision-making during the design 21 of sustainable buildings. The method exploits the LCA tool and the assessment framework provided 22 by a Green Sustainable Building Certification (Active House) integrated with BIM. The method was 23 applied and proven through a case study: a residential single-family building in northern Italy, as-24 suming to compare two technological options.

It presents an important contribution to the study area. we recommend small observations below.

Need for a climate characterization of the study area where the house used in the modeling is located.

In the title, it is not recommended to insert acronyms that are not in the public domain, such as BIM and LCA, for example.

Author Response

We thank the reviewer for the valuable notes. Here are the replies to the reviewer’s comments. 

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Reviewer 2 Report

Please see the review in the attachment.

Comments for author File: Comments.docx


Author Response

We thank the reviewer for the valuable notes. Here are the replies to the reviewer’s comments. 

Please see the attachment.

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

The paper has been revised according to the remarks. Individual answers for each remark have been included in authors' letter. They provide satisfactory explaination. 

To conclude, I recommend the paper for publication in present form.

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